Improved india-rubber whip-socket



c. GOODYEAR; Jr.

Whip-Socket. No. 38,897. Ptented 1mm/15, 1563.

Inventor,

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nvneaovlaoA INDIA-RUBBER WHiP-'socueiz Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,897, dated J une :16,.1863 To all whom it may concerm f of form. I then sometimes attach byfceme'n Be 1t knownthat I, CHARLES GOODYEAR, tation suitable straps or loops, C, upon the Jr., of the city, county, and State of-New outside ofthe socket, by which it may, when York, have invented a new. and useful Imin-use, be fastened in its place upon-the carprovement in Whip-Sockets; and Ihereby riage, er I cause slits to be punched or cut declare the following to bea full, clear, and in the body ofthe socket', throughwhieh exact'description ofthe same, reference being straps may be passed for this purpose. I then had to. the accompanying drawings, in apply such ornamental figured Q rplainbands r which- I tion of whip-sooketsm-ore durable, of a supe- .being coated upon both sides, adheres as it is i-oiled up and'forms a tube, A. eI then-insert v D, aroundthe top and bottom of the socket Figure 1 is an elevation; Fig. 2, a plan, and ,as may bel desired to give a linished appear- Fig. 3 a sectional view of thesame'on line a ance to the soeket, which isthen.readyte-,ber

The object of my invention is the producindia-rubber in anufacturers.`

yThe advantages of my improved whipsocket are, as before stated, cheapness, durability, and superior finish. They do not become water-soaked and lose their shape, as do those made of leather,nor are they liable to be indented or broken, aszare the cheap metal sockets. I am aware that whip-sockets were hereto- :rior finish, and at a cheaper rate than they have heretofore been made and m'yinventiou consists in a new manufacture, both as tothe article produced and the manner of producing the samer: A

I shall now proceed to describe the mauncr-vof carrying my invention into operation.

I take a fabric of cotton cloth, or other suitable b'rous material, coated on both sides with the vulca-n-izable soft india-rubber compounds, as well understood byindia-rubber manufacturers, and cut it in pieces ofthe/,required length and width-say about teu inches long by seven or eight in Width-according to the size of the socket andthe thickness of the fabric used. I' then take a cylindrical forni ofiwoodl or metal, or their equivalents, of the f size of the interior of the socket, upon which Il roll the piece of india-rubber clothwhich,

ized .india-rubber, which are" produced by the expansion of thejcomp'ound in molds and afterward turned and polished in lathes, and? which are much more expensive.

What I'claimgis-Q rubber whip sockets, substantially as herein-` befre described. p Y In testimony whereof I"have 'signed my name. to this, specification before twofsub.- jscribng witnesses. or asten around vpiece of stiffindia-rubber OHAVS GOODYEARJE. fabric, B, in-to or upon one end of this tube, land -cause it to be stayed" in a suitable 'man-l ner, so asto securd'strength and permanency i ,Witnesses A, P oLLAK, ADDISON BROWN.

varnished and afterward submitted 'to the vuleanizing process, as pis Vwell understood by' fore made 'ofthe hard compound of vulcanv The manufacture yof soft vulcanized indial 

